This archive report was first published on 1 October 2019.
On October 1, 2019, detectives were interrogating Nancy Kigwe Wettstein, a 63-year-old well-known Nairobi beauty industry entrepreneur, in connection with the murder of Tob Cohen, whose body was discovered in an underground water tank at his Kitsuru home in Nairobi.
Ms Wettstein was once the proprietor of Pivot Point, a hair design and beauty school, and the top-end Urembo Hair salon. She was a close friend of Sarah Wairimu, who has been under arrest since August 28 over the murder of her husband between July 19 and 20.
Ms Wairimu has yet to plead to the charge after the High Court was told by Cohen's family lawyer, Cliff Ombeta, that Ms Wairimu's lawyer, Phillip Murgor, was still a gazetted public prosecutor. State prosecutor Catherine Mwaniki asked the court to give her more time to establish from Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji whether he had revoked the appointment of Mr Murgor as a state prosecutor.
Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti confirmed that they were interrogating Ms Wettstein but could not say much about the nature of the evidence and progress of investigations due to a court gag order.
Ms Wettstein's fate was not clear by last evening, and police could not say whether she was a witness or a suspect. Besides Ms Wairimu, police are also holding Naivasha businessman Peter Njoroge Karanja, who is being detained at Kiambu Police Station as police conduct forensic investigations and question more people known to him.
